Quotes on Work, Education, Productivity

[Daniel E.]

Already dreading Monday? Here’s how to get your Sunday night anxiety under control

An expert shares her top tips.

www.stylist.co.uk

“Techniques that engage both the mind and body can be much more effective in quelling anxiety."

 

[Daniel E.]

"We’ll elicit improved performance from the brain when we approach it with the aim not of issuing orders but of creating situations that draw out the desired result."

― Annie Murphy Paul, The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain

 

[Daniel E.]

Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

From the author of the New York Times bestseller, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, this essential guide offers daily, practical ways to help y...

www.newharbinger.com

Self-care means honoring and respecting the self. But when you grow up with emotionally immature parents, you are taught that setting limits is selfish and uncaring. You are taught to seek approval instead of authenticity in relationships.

 

[Daniel E.]

 

[Daniel E.]

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

~ William Butler Yeats

 

[Daniel E.]

“In a society that glorifies grinding, short-term gains and pushing to extremes, it takes guts to rest.”

― Brad Stulberg, Peak Performance

 

[Daniel E.]

“Often when we accept ourselves, we’re more likely to get the best from ourselves, because we’re better placed to look at what we need to thrive, rather than change.”

~ Madeleine Dore, author of I Didn’t Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

 

[Daniel E.]

Why achieving that big life goal has left you feeling flat

You might have fallen foul of the “arrival fallacy”. Time to take stock.

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“If you achieve a goal that is closely aligned with your personal values, you are far more likely to feel content when you do.”

 

[Daniel E.]

Dude, Where’s My Frontal Cortex?

There’s a method to the madness of the teenage brain.

nautil.us

Some educators stress that a student’s “emotional intelligence” or “social intelligence” (as measured various ways) is a better predictor of adult success and happiness than their IQ or SAT scores. It’s all about social memory rather than memory of vocabulary words, about emotional perspective-taking, impulse control, empathy, ability to work with others, self-regulation.

 

[Daniel E.]

"Laziness really is this canary-in-a-coal-mine kind of emotion that tells us when our values are out of step with our actual lives."

~ Devon Price

 

[Daniel E.]

Four stages of competence - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Unconscious competence: The individual has had so much practice with a skill that it has become "second nature" and can be performed easily. As a result, the skill can be performed while executing another task. The individual may be able to teach it to others, depending upon how and when it was learned.

 

[Daniel E.]

Scientists Say It’s More Stressful to Be a Waiter Than a Neurosurgeon

A new study has found that demanding jobs offering employees little control—step forward weekend brunch server on a 12 hour split-shift—are among the most detrimental to mental and physical health.

www.vice.com

"It's possible that high stress jobs lead to more unhealthy behaviours, such as poor eating habits, smoking, and a lack of exercise."

 

[Daniel E.]

How 'Gamification' of Everything Is Manipulating You (and How to Recognize It)

Companies are using gamification to manipulate you. Here's how to see it and fight against it.

lifehacker.com

If your company is notorious for making promises it doesn’t keep, don’t get your hopes up about your chances of advancing through the ranks. Spend your free time looking for other work instead of knocking yourself out for a reward you may not receive.

 

[Daniel E.]

“Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.”

~ James Hillman

 

[Daniel E.]

https://www.thecut.com/article/ask-a-boss-i-hate-my-new-job.html

It’s entirely valid to leave when a job turns out to be utterly different from what you were promised...That’s on them, not on you, and you don’t need to stick around when that happens.

 

[Daniel E.]

How to Talk to Your Boss When You’re Underperforming

It’s normal to underperform on occasion. After all, everyone has a bad quarter — or even a bad year — from time to time. But don’t just sit back and wait for that painful performance review. Be proactive in talking with your manager about missing your goals. In situations like these, the two...

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Be proactive in talking with your manager about missing your goals. In situations like these, the two best ways to preserve your professional reputation is to first, come clean about your underperformance before your boss has a chance to discover it another way, and second, to focus on solutions, not excuses.

 

[Daniel E.]

Amazon.com

History teachers aren’t expected to teach science, math teachers aren’t expected to teach social studies; so why are all teachers responsible for teaching reading? The answer is simple. An emphasis on reading and literacy skills in the content areas has an exponential effect on learning in every discipline.

 

[Daniel E.]

Don’t have 10,000 hours to learn something new? That’s fine — all you need is 20 hours

Writer Josh Kaufman shares his own tried-and-tested technique to learn a new skill by putting in just 45 minutes a day for a month.

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To overcome what Kaufman calls the “frustration barrier” — that period in the beginning when you’re painfully incompetent and you know it — you must commit to sticking with your new activity for at least 20 hours. By that point, he says, “you will be astounded at how good you are.”

 

[Daniel E.]

Five Misconceptions on Writing Feedback

By Rolf Norgaard and Stephanie Foster Does thinki

www.colorado.edu

Writing is not only something people “do” to communicate what they have learned, writing can be used as a means of learning. Writing-to-learn is a set of strategies that can engage students in the course content in ways that help build content mastery.

 

[Daniel E.]

Dear College: Your Enrollment Process Sucks. Said Every Student Every Where. The Story of a First-Generation College Student.

I applied to only one college over 20 years ago. The college came to my high school and, after a brief interview and transcript review, I was told I would probably be accepted.

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Research indicates that 72% of students who do not re-enroll give customer service as the reason. (Neal A. Raisman, The Business of Higher Education)